proyecto sm

BRAZIL
SPAIN
SM HAS AN ACTIVE AND
COMMITTED ROLE IN THE
WORLD OF CULTURE AND
EDUCATION.
OVER 60 YEARS WORK IN
THE SECTOR BEARS
WITNESS TO THIS FACT.
PERU
MEXICO
ARGENTINA
COLOMBIA
PUERTO RICO
CHILE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Because SM is so much more than just a
publishing house, more than a business, it is a
cultural and educational project manifested in
the model of a person and an idea of the
world which are inextricably linked.
SM is a dream settled on values and criteria
providing an education for life and with
which we wish to encourage and accompany
the child in its development.
SM’S CORPORATE VALUES
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THE IMPETUS
BEHIND SM’S
MARKET IMAGE
SM PROFESSIONALS
IDENTITY
SOURCE OF
INSPIRATION FOR
ORGANIZATIONAL
PROCESSES
Education entails guiding a child
along the lines of freedom
and responsibility in order
to grow as an individual.
Education is presenting children with their
own reality and the reality of the
vicissitudes of the world with all its shadows
and light, helping and encouraging them to
develop their character and to become active
elements in transforming the world from a
realistic and positive perspective.
Education needs to reach every
dimension of an individual. This means
an integral education as the sole choice.
Our personal nature is manifested in our
numerous dimensions, bodily, affective,
rational, moral, and aesthetic without
forgetting the transcendent dimension,
which is manifested in an active
commitment to build a better world.
Education says it all, because behind that
word education, always lies generosity and
dedication.
Learning is everything, because learning
reflects an attitude of openness and
commitment, it means being prepared to go
forward, analysing our successes and
failures, seeking continuous improvement
and doing so with humility.
SM’s cultural and educational
proposals are the fruit of a plan
which is universal given the depth
and scope of our ideals.
This enables us to creatively
reinvent ourselves in all the different
cultures in which SM has a
presence. We live in a plural
and multicultural society, and we
wish to instil the capacity to live at
ease in that world, always seeking
a point of common accord
in the best of shared values.
SM currently has operations
and presence in the cultural
life of nine countries: Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Dominican Republic, Mexico,
Peru, Puerto Rico and Spain it
maintains that presence
in each of their different languages.
Spain
Dominican Republic
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Colombia
Peru
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
THE SM VENTURE TAKES
SHAPE IN TWO FULLY
INTEGRATED AREAS:
THE PUBLISHING WORK
OF THE COMPANIES
WHICH CONSTITUTE
THE SM GROUP AND
THE SOCIAL WORK
CARRIED OUT BY THE
SM FOUNDATION.
The publishing work of the SM Group is
concerned with devising and creating
products and services aimed to improve
teaching and learning processes inside and
outside the classroom.
With a catalogue of over 8.000 titles in
print, including emblematic collections
such as El Barco de Vapor and Gran
Angular in addition to other narrative
works along with books of knowledge
and discovery, as well as text books
and teaching material for teachers
and pupils, which also come in innovative
digital formats (contents for digital
blackboards, videos, activity banks...);
language teaching methods, dictionaries,
and reference books; religious publications
and prominent initiatives in information
technologies, such as SMLIR (Interactive
Network Book), Libros Vivos or Profes.net
the most visited web in the Spanish
educational community.
The publishing
companies through which
the SM Group develops all
its activities are:
In turn SM Foundation dedicates profits
from the publishing group to philanthropic
actions in four main areas:
– Educational research development.
– Teacher professional training funding and
dignification of their role in our society.
– Children’s and young people’s literature
fostering.
– Investment in social and educational
development.
Its main purpose is to bring teaching and
culture to the most deprived sectors of
society.
All the profits from SM Group are entirely
aimed at funding of the Foundation's
programmes and for developing and
expanding the Group's business activity.
Therefore, for SM, corporate social
responsibility is not just one more activity
but instead an intrinsic element of its own
being.
At the present time SM is one of the most
prominent players on the Latin American
publishing scene, and a clear leader in its
fields of activity, and its development and
ideals are becoming firmly established in
each of the countries in which it has a
presence.
This leadership is becoming increasingly consolidated
as a result of :
- The clarity and strength of our personal and global
ideals.
- A firm vocation for education and culture.
- Innovation in its creative and production processes.
- Incorporation of advantages provided by information
technologies.
- The invaluable human and intellectual capital of our
work teams and collaborators.
- The stability and strength of an independent project.
- The generosity to give profits back to society through
the SM Foundation.
AT SM WE ARE WORKING
TO HELP PEOPLE GROW
AND INCREASE THEIR SKILLS
IN EVERY ASPECT AND
DIMENSION OF THEIR LIVES
Learning is everything
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www.fundacion-sm.com
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